How do successful scholars get their best research ideas? An exploration

We interview 24 marketing professors to ask how they got the ideas for 64 of their papers. More than three-quarters of the papers were inspired by holes in the literature, by a "stylized fact" that the current literature cannot explain, or by an interaction with a manager. The rest fall in...

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Main Authors: Cao, Cathy (Author), Cao, Xinyu (Author), Cashman, Matthew (Author), Kumar, Madhav (Author), Timoshenko, Artem (Author), Yang, Jeremy (Jeremy Zhen) (Author), Yu, Shuyi (Author), Zhang, Jerry (Author), Zhu, Yuting (Author), Wernerfelt, Birger (Author)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-11-23T20:56:07Z.
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